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<title>Alex Schroeder: Diary</title>
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<title>Oddmuse Channel</title>
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<description>&lt;p&gt;This is why I like the Oddmuse channel on Freenode so much&amp;#x2026; &lt;img class="smiley" src="http://www.emacswiki.org/pics/smile.png" alt=":)" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;dl class="irc"&gt;&lt;dt&gt;&lt;span class="time"&gt;16:51  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;CapnDan&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/dt&gt;&lt;dd&gt;Honestly I don&amp;#x2019;t understand why people get so religious about different versions of Unix. &lt;/dd&gt;&lt;dt&gt;&lt;span class="time"&gt;16:52  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;kensanata&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/dt&gt;&lt;dd&gt;Everybody likes to imagine that their decision was rational. &lt;/dd&gt;&lt;dt&gt;&lt;span class="time"&gt;16:52  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;kensanata&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/dt&gt;&lt;dd&gt;Therefore they infuse the first decision and the facts that influenced it with overproportional importance. &lt;/dd&gt;&lt;dt&gt;&lt;span class="time"&gt;16:52  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;kensanata&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/dt&gt;&lt;dd&gt;NETBSD IS THE ONLY SECURE OPERATING SYSTEM!!!! &lt;/dd&gt;&lt;dt&gt;&lt;span class="time"&gt;16:53  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;CapnDan&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/dt&gt;&lt;dd&gt;yeah, there&amp;#x2019;s a name for that, I was reading about it a few months ago. &lt;/dd&gt;&lt;dt&gt;&lt;span class="time"&gt;16:53  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;CapnDan&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/dt&gt;&lt;dd&gt;A popular psychology word from last year. &lt;/dd&gt;&lt;dt&gt;&lt;span class="time"&gt;16:53  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;kensanata&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/dt&gt;&lt;dd&gt;&amp;#x201c;Moron Syndrome&amp;#x201d;? &lt;/dd&gt;&lt;dt&gt;&lt;span class="time"&gt;16:53  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;CapnDan&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/dt&gt;&lt;dd&gt;lol&lt;/dd&gt;&lt;/dl&gt;&lt;p&gt;(Dan later discovers that the term he was looking for is &lt;a class="near" title="Wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/cognitive_inertia"&gt;cognitive inertia&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki?action=tag;id=Oddmuse"&gt;Oddmuse&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="feed tag" title="Feed for this tag" rel="feed" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/feed/full/Oddmuse"&gt;&lt;img src="http://alexschroeder.ch/pics/rss.png" alt="RSS" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki?action=tag;id=IRC"&gt;IRC&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="feed tag" title="Feed for this tag" rel="feed" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/feed/full/IRC"&gt;&lt;img src="http://alexschroeder.ch/pics/rss.png" alt="RSS" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:55:15 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Add Identica Account to Bitlbee</title>
<link>http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/2010-07-09_Add_Identica_Account_to_Bitlbee</link>
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<description>&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x2019;m using IRC via &lt;a class="near" title="Names" href="http://www.bitlbee.org/"&gt;Bitlbee&lt;/a&gt; to do instant messaging in Emacs. I&amp;#x2019;ve been using the &lt;b&gt;ui-fix&lt;/b&gt; branch of Bitlbee. Here&amp;#x2019;s how to add an Identi.ca account:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;    account add twitter kensanata foo
    account list 
    account 6 set base_url http://identi.ca/api
    account 6 set mode chat
    account 6 set oauth false
    save
    account 6 on&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;p&gt;Instead of &amp;#x201c;6&amp;#x201d; you need to use the correct account number.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you already have a Twitter account with the same handle, one of the two will be called #chat_000 instead of #identica_kensanata &amp;#x2013; join us on #bitlbee @ freenode and help us fix it. &lt;img class="smiley" src="http://www.emacswiki.org/pics/smile.png" alt=":)" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Update&lt;/b&gt;: I&amp;#x2019;ve been working on a patch attached to ticket #648 (&lt;a class="url http outside" href="http://bugs.bitlbee.org/bitlbee/ticket/648"&gt;using Twitter and Identica accounts with the same username&lt;/a&gt;) to add support for an Identica protocol.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;    account add identica kensanata foo
    account identica set mode chat
    save
    account identica on&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Update&lt;/b&gt;: A modified form of my patch has been applied. &lt;img class="smiley" src="http://www.emacswiki.org/pics/vee.png" alt="vee" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=tag;id=IRC"&gt;IRC&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="feed tag" title="Feed for this tag" rel="feed" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex/feed/full/IRC"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex/pics/rss.png" alt="RSS" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=tag;id=Bitlbee"&gt;Bitlbee&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="feed tag" title="Feed for this tag" rel="feed" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex/feed/full/Bitlbee"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex/pics/rss.png" alt="RSS" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=tag;id=Emacs"&gt;Emacs&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="feed tag" title="Feed for this tag" rel="feed" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex/feed/full/Emacs"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex/pics/rss.png" alt="RSS" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 10:50:45 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Compile Bitlbee UI-fix branch on Mac OS 10.4</title>
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<description>&lt;p&gt;Yeah, I know. Why the hell am I still using Mac OS 10.4 instead of upgrading &amp;#x2013; or moving to a Debian system? I dunno!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;So I was trying to compile the ui-fix branch for &lt;a class="near" title="EmacsWiki" href="http://emacswiki.org/emacs?BitlBee"&gt;BitlBee&lt;/a&gt;. It includes the killerbee branch, so it uses libpurple and all that.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a class="url http" href="http://code.bitlbee.org/wilmer/ui-fix/"&gt;http://code.bitlbee.org/wilmer/ui-fix/&lt;/a&gt; &amp;#x2013; which requires xmlto…&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a class="url http" href="http://cyberelk.net/tim/software/xmlto/"&gt;http://cyberelk.net/tim/software/xmlto/&lt;/a&gt; &amp;#x2013; for the documentation, which requires getopt, gettext, and docbook…&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a class="url http" href="http://software.frodo.looijaard.name/getopt/"&gt;http://software.frodo.looijaard.name/getopt/&lt;/a&gt; &amp;#x2013; to build xmlto; I also had to use &lt;code&gt;LDFLAGS=-lintl&lt;/code&gt; in the Makefile to compile it.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a class="url http" href="http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/"&gt;http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/&lt;/a&gt; &amp;#x2013; I already had gettext 0.17 installed, which is where libintl comes from&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;next is&amp;#x2026; the nightmare that is docbook!! &lt;img class="smiley" src="http://www.emacswiki.org/pics/evil.png" alt="&amp;gt;{" /&gt; &lt;img class="url http" src="http://www.clicksmilies.com/s1106/wuerg/vomit-smiley-001.gif" alt="http://www.clicksmilies.com/s1106/wuerg/vomit-smiley-001.gif" /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;I wasted a lot of time on this.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is so sad.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The sun was shining, too.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I was unable to find something prepackaged for me. So I started to follow the instructions in &lt;a class="url http outside" href="http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/index.html"&gt;DocBook XSL: The Complete Guide&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Installing the DocBook DTD&lt;/b&gt; &amp;#x2013; xmlto doesn&amp;#x2019;t use the latest one so I got version 4.2 &amp;#x2013; &lt;a class="url http" href="http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbook-xml-4.2.zip"&gt;http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbook-xml-4.2.zip&lt;/a&gt; and unpacked it. I wanted everything in &lt;code&gt;/usr/local/share/xml&lt;/code&gt; so that&amp;#x2019;s what I did &amp;#x2013; &lt;code&gt;sudo mv docbook-xml-4.2 /usr/local/share/xml&lt;/code&gt;&amp;#x2026;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Installing the DocBook stylesheets&lt;/b&gt; &amp;#x2013; so now we need stylesheets to create the manpages. I got the following file: &lt;a class="url http" href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/docbook/files/docbook-xsl-ns/1.75.2/docbook-xsl-ns-1.75.2.tar.bz2/download"&gt;http://sourceforge.net/projects/docbook/files/docbook-xsl-ns/1.75.2/docbook-xsl-ns-1.75.2.tar.bz2/download&lt;/a&gt; and used &lt;code&gt;sudo mv docbook-xsl-ns-1.75.2 /usr/local/share/xml&lt;/code&gt;&amp;#x2026;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;How to write an XML catalog file&lt;/b&gt; &amp;#x2013; next I needed to write the catalog for the minimum stuff I needed. I created a the file &lt;code&gt;/usr/local/share/xml/docbook.cat&lt;/code&gt; with the following content:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;pre class="real"&gt;&amp;lt;?xml version="1.0"?&amp;gt;
&amp;lt;catalog  xmlns="urn:oasis:names:tc:entity:xmlns:xml:catalog"&amp;gt;
  &amp;lt;group  prefer="public"  xml:base="file:///usr/local/share/xml/" &amp;gt;
    &amp;lt;public
       publicId="-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.2//EN"
       uri="docbook-xml-4.2/docbookx.dtd"/&amp;gt;
    &amp;lt;rewriteURI
       uriStartString="http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/"
       rewritePrefix="docbook-xsl-ns-1.75.2/" /&amp;gt;
  &amp;lt;/group&amp;gt;
&amp;lt;/catalog&amp;gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;p&gt;I set the environment variable in my .bashrc: &lt;code&gt;export XML_CATALOG_FILES=/usr/local/share/xml/docbook.cat&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;And with that, &lt;code&gt;make xmlto&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;make bitlbee&lt;/code&gt; worked!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=tag;id=Mac"&gt;Mac&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="feed tag" title="Feed für diesen Tag" rel="feed" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=journal;full=1;search=tag:Mac"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex/pics/rss.png" alt="RSS" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=tag;id=IRC"&gt;IRC&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="feed tag" title="Feed für diesen Tag" rel="feed" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=journal;full=1;search=tag:IRC"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex/pics/rss.png" alt="RSS" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=tag;id=Bitlbee"&gt;Bitlbee&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="feed tag" title="Feed für diesen Tag" rel="feed" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=journal;full=1;search=tag:Bitlbee"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex/pics/rss.png" alt="RSS" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=tag;id=Emacs"&gt;Emacs&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="feed tag" title="Feed für diesen Tag" rel="feed" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=journal;full=1;search=tag:Emacs"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex/pics/rss.png" alt="RSS" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=tag;id=DocBook"&gt;DocBook&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="feed tag" title="Feed für diesen Tag" rel="feed" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=journal;full=1;search=tag:DocBook"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex/pics/rss.png" alt="RSS" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 15:20:46 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Show Only rcirc Buffers</title>
<link>http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/2010-03-25_Show_Only_rcirc_Buffers</link>
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<description>&lt;p&gt;The following function will replace whatever you are looking at with all your &lt;a class="near" title="EmacsWiki" href="http://emacswiki.org/emacs?rcirc"&gt;rcirc&lt;/a&gt; targets (channels and query buffers). It turns out that with 13 channels I&amp;#x2019;m already reaching a limit on this display. Bummer!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;pre class="real"&gt;(defun rcirc-only ()
  (interactive)
  (let (channels)
    (dolist (buf (buffer-list))
      (with-current-buffer buf
	(when (and (eq major-mode 'rcirc-mode)
		   rcirc-target)
	  (setq channels (cons buf channels)))))
    (delete-other-windows)
    (let ((win (selected-window))
	  (size (/ (window-height) (length channels))))
      (dolist (buf channels)
	(split-window-vertically (- (window-height) size))
	(window--display-buffer-2 buf (selected-window)))
      (delete-window win)))
  (balance-windows))&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;p&gt;As I said. Useless. Every window is about three lines high. Gaaah! &lt;img class="smiley" src="http://www.emacswiki.org/pics/evil.png" alt="&amp;gt;{" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=tag;id=Emacs"&gt;Emacs&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="feed tag" title="Feed für diesen Tag" rel="feed" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=journal;full=1;search=tag:Emacs"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex/pics/rss.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=tag;id=IRC"&gt;IRC&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="feed tag" title="Feed für diesen Tag" rel="feed" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=journal;full=1;search=tag:IRC"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex/pics/rss.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
<pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2010 16:07:50 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Support Freenode</title>
<link>http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/2010-02-22_Support_Freenode</link>
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<description>&lt;p&gt;I hang out on the &lt;a class="near" title="EmacsWiki" href="http://emacswiki.org/emacs?EmacsChannel"&gt;EmacsChannel&lt;/a&gt; and other channels practically every working day. The current &lt;a class="url http outside" href="http://freenode.net/pdpc_seven.shtml"&gt;Give £7 for seven&lt;/a&gt; program gives me a T-shirt for £21. That&amp;#x2019;s a lot of money, but then again, I love &lt;a class="local" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/IRC"&gt;IRC&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;img class="smiley" src="http://www.emacswiki.org/pics/smile.png" alt=":)" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=tag;id=IRC"&gt;IRC&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="feed tag" title="Feed für diesen Tag" rel="feed" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=journal;full=1;search=tag:IRC"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex/pics/rss.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=tag;id=Emacs"&gt;Emacs&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="feed tag" title="Feed für diesen Tag" rel="feed" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=journal;full=1;search=tag:Emacs"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex/pics/rss.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 13:29:24 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Lunatics on the Emacs Channel</title>
<link>http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/2010-02-12_Lunatics_on_the_Emacs_Channel</link>
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<description>&lt;p&gt;I sometimes kick people from the &lt;a class="near" title="EmacsWiki" href="http://emacswiki.org/emacs?EmacsChannel"&gt;Emacs channel&lt;/a&gt; on IRC. Often I am dragged into long discussions of whether I abused my power or not.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Then I get stuff like this:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;pre class="real"&gt;16:59 !!! consolers sent unsupported ctcp: FUCKOFFANDDIE
14:57 !!! consolers sent unsupported ctcp: EATSHITANDDIE&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img class="smiley" src="http://www.emacswiki.org/pics/braindamaged.png" alt="braindamaged" /&gt; / &lt;img class="smiley" src="http://www.emacswiki.org/pics/evil.png" alt="&amp;gt;{" /&gt; ?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=tag;id=Emacs"&gt;Emacs&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="feed tag" title="Feed für diesen Tag" rel="feed" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=journal;full=1;search=tag:Emacs"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex/pics/rss.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=tag;id=IRC"&gt;IRC&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="feed tag" title="Feed für diesen Tag" rel="feed" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=journal;full=1;search=tag:IRC"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex/pics/rss.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 14:13:20 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Bitlbee Again</title>
<link>http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/2009-10-07_Bitlbee_Again</link>
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<description>&lt;p&gt;It turned out to be trivial to download and install &lt;a class="url http outside" href="http://www.bitlbee.org/"&gt;Bitlbee&lt;/a&gt; from source. Then I used &lt;a class="near" title="EmacsWiki" href="http://emacswiki.org/emacs?bitlbee.el"&gt;bitlbee.el&lt;/a&gt; to start it from within Emacs instead of trying to have it run all the time. In fact, the following seems to work just fine:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;pre class="real"&gt;(autoload 'bitlbee-start "bitlbee" t)
(setq bitlbee-executable "/usr/local/sbin/bitlbee")

(global-set-key (kbd "C-c e")
		(lambda ()
		  (interactive)
		  (bitlbee-start); needs time to start up
		  (run-with-idle-timer 1 nil 'rcirc nil)))&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;p&gt;Don&amp;#x2019;t forget to add an appropriate entry to rcirc-server-alist and rcirc-authinfo.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Quick setup for myself:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;pre class="real"&gt;account add oscar "kensanata" "*secret*"
account add oscar "98129982" "*secret*"
account add jabber "kensanata@gmail.com" "*secret*"
account set jabber/ssl true
account set jabber/server talk.google.com
account set jabber/port 5223
save
account on&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;p&gt;Using &lt;em style="text-decoration: underline; font-style: normal;"&gt;account set&lt;/em&gt; was new to me. And having to use port 5223 instead of 5222 was weird, too. But now it seems to work. Yeah! I ended up not using &lt;a class="near" title="EmacsWiki" href="http://emacswiki.org/emacs?ELIM"&gt;ELIM&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a class="local" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/2009-01-16_jabber.el"&gt;jabber.el&lt;/a&gt;, which is why I wanted to give Bitlbee another try. &lt;img class="smiley" src="http://www.emacswiki.org/pics/ok.png" alt="ok" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=tag;id=Emacs"&gt;Emacs&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="feed tag" title="Feed für diesen Tag" rel="feed" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=journal;full=1;search=tag:Emacs"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex/pics/rss.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=tag;id=IRC"&gt;IRC&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="feed tag" title="Feed für diesen Tag" rel="feed" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=journal;full=1;search=tag:IRC"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex/pics/rss.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 03:09:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Plans for fsbot</title>
<link>http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/2007-11-15_Plans_for_fsbot</link>
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<description>&lt;dl class="irc"&gt;&lt;dt&gt;&lt;span class="time"&gt;11:49  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;kensanata&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/dt&gt;&lt;dd&gt;It would be cool if we could join #fsbot and tell fsbot what to say on #emacs. &lt;/dd&gt;&lt;dt&gt;&lt;span class="time"&gt;11:49  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;kensanata&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/dt&gt;&lt;dd&gt;Then newbies would go bonkers a dozen a minute. &lt;/dd&gt;&lt;dt&gt;&lt;span class="time"&gt;11:55  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;kensanata&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/dt&gt;&lt;dd&gt;Fsbot is already exhibiting a lot of artificial stupidity, sometimes he tricks people. &lt;/dd&gt;&lt;dt&gt;&lt;span class="time"&gt;12:17  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;kensanata&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/dt&gt;&lt;dd&gt;I don&amp;#x2019;t care what the bots look like on the inside. &lt;/dd&gt;&lt;dt&gt;&lt;span class="time"&gt;12:19  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;kensanata&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/dt&gt;&lt;dd&gt;It would be cool if we could look inside fsbot and see the #fsbot channel members listed. &lt;/dd&gt;&lt;dt&gt;&lt;span class="time"&gt;12:19  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;kensanata&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/dt&gt;&lt;dd&gt;Then we&amp;#x2019;d know who was controlling it. &lt;/dd&gt;&lt;dt&gt;&lt;span class="time"&gt;12:20  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;kensanata&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/dt&gt;&lt;dd&gt;Plus we&amp;#x2019;d prevent people from remote controlling fsbot via msg and queries. &lt;/dd&gt;&lt;dt&gt;&lt;span class="time"&gt;12:20  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;kensanata&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/dt&gt;&lt;dd&gt;Then we get back social control which is important. &lt;/dd&gt;&lt;dt&gt;&lt;span class="time"&gt;12:21  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;kensanata&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/dt&gt;&lt;dd&gt;If fsbot starts spewing insults, I want a way to figure out who is doing it and stop it. &lt;/dd&gt;&lt;dt&gt;&lt;span class="time"&gt;12:21  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;kensanata&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/dt&gt;&lt;dd&gt;Requiring remote control to come from #fsbot would allow for that. &lt;/dd&gt;&lt;dt&gt;&lt;span class="time"&gt;12:23  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;kensanata&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/dt&gt;&lt;dd&gt;I don&amp;#x2019;t think logging is required for what I want to do, since I don&amp;#x2019;t require perfect accountability. &lt;/dd&gt;&lt;dt&gt;&lt;span class="time"&gt;12:24  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;kensanata&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/dt&gt;&lt;dd&gt;All I want to do is this: fsbot starts insulting me. I join #fsbot. I see dUm6455 saying &amp;#x201c;tell #emacs kensanata uses vi!&amp;#x201d;. Then I can kickban dUm6455&amp;#x2026; &lt;/dd&gt;&lt;dt&gt;&lt;span class="time"&gt;12:25  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;kensanata&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/dt&gt;&lt;dd&gt;If dUm6455 only insults me once, and parts #fsbot after the first message, then too bad, he got away. No problem. &lt;/dd&gt;&lt;dt&gt;&lt;span class="time"&gt;12:25  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;kensanata&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/dt&gt;&lt;dd&gt;It&amp;#x2019;s like real life. Physics cuts us some slack. &lt;/dd&gt;&lt;dt&gt;&lt;span class="time"&gt;12:26  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;kensanata&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/dt&gt;&lt;dd&gt;Maybe people will start ignoring fsbot because of his lousy signal-to-noise ratio? &lt;/dd&gt;&lt;dt&gt;&lt;span class="time"&gt;12:27  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;kensanata&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/dt&gt;&lt;dd&gt;My solution would forgive one-time offenders. &lt;/dd&gt;&lt;dt&gt;&lt;span class="time"&gt;12:27  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;kensanata&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/dt&gt;&lt;dd&gt;After the first insult I&amp;#x2019;d be monitoring #fsbot and I need no longer need a log, long or short. &lt;/dd&gt;&lt;dt&gt;&lt;span class="time"&gt;12:28  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;kensanata&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/dt&gt;&lt;dd&gt;If this turns out to be a problem I&amp;#x2019;m sure it will be easy to add. &lt;/dd&gt;&lt;dt&gt;&lt;span class="time"&gt;12:28  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;kensanata&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/dt&gt;&lt;dd&gt;I just don&amp;#x2019;t like monitoring to a system that doesn&amp;#x2019;t need it. We have enough watchers in our lives already. &lt;/dd&gt;&lt;dt&gt;&lt;span class="time"&gt;12:29  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;kensanata&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/dt&gt;&lt;dd&gt;We need one of those rare saviours, those holy men of free software, a true martyr, A VOLUNTEER!&lt;/dd&gt;&lt;/dl&gt;&lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki?action=tag;id=IRC"&gt;IRC&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="feed tag" title="Feed for this tag" rel="feed" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/feed/full/IRC"&gt;&lt;img src="http://alexschroeder.ch/pics/rss.png" alt="RSS" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki?action=tag;id=Emacs"&gt;Emacs&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="feed tag" title="Feed for this tag" rel="feed" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/feed/full/Emacs"&gt;&lt;img src="http://alexschroeder.ch/pics/rss.png" alt="RSS" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
<pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2007 12:47:28 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Decline of Civility</title>
<link>http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/2006-09-26_Decline_of_Civility</link>
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<description>&lt;p&gt;I find that I hardly enjoy the conversation on the &lt;a class="near" title="EmacsWiki" href="http://emacswiki.org/emacs?EmacsChannel"&gt;EmacsChannel&lt;/a&gt; anymore. There&amp;#x2019;s five people on my ignore list at work. There was nobody on my ignore list at home but now there is. &lt;img class="smiley" src="http://www.emacswiki.org/pics/sad.png" alt=":(" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;A few days ago I wrote about the dilemma of operators that use an &lt;a class="near" title="Community" href="http://www.communitywiki.org/cw/IgnoreList"&gt;IgnoreList&lt;/a&gt; on Community Wiki.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Looking back on my Emacs history, I realize how I started out reading &lt;a class="near" title="EmacsWiki" href="http://emacswiki.org/emacs?EmacsNewsgroups"&gt;EmacsNewsgroups&lt;/a&gt; (searching for my name on Google Groups &lt;a class="inter Groups number" href="http://groups.google.com/groups?as_ugroup=*emacs*&amp;amp;as_q=&amp;amp;as_uauthors=alex+schroeder"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="bracket"&gt;[&lt;/span&gt;1&lt;span class="bracket"&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; shows 1,240 matches&amp;#x2026;) to reading &lt;a class="near" title="EmacsWiki" href="http://emacswiki.org/emacs?emacs-devel"&gt;emacs-devel&lt;/a&gt; (on of the &lt;a class="near" title="EmacsWiki" href="http://emacswiki.org/emacs?EmacsMailingLists"&gt;EmacsMailingLists&lt;/a&gt;), to &lt;a class="local" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/IRC"&gt;IRC&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a class="local" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/EmacsWiki"&gt;EmacsWiki&lt;/a&gt;&amp;#x2026;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/alex?action=browse;tag=1;id=IRC"&gt;IRC&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/alex?action=browse;tag=1;id=Emacs"&gt;Emacs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
<pubDate>Wed, 27 Sep 2006 10:14:13 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Bugs coming back to haunt you</title>
<link>http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/2006-08-15_Bugs_coming_back_to_haunt_you</link>
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<description>&lt;p&gt;Overheard on the &lt;a class="near" title="EmacsWiki" href="http://emacswiki.org/emacs?EmacsChannel"&gt;EmacsChannel&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;dl class="irc"&gt;&lt;dt&gt;&lt;span class="time"&gt;04:13  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;user&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/dt&gt;&lt;dd&gt;hi. remember that bug we once fixed in the IRC client that made the cursor jump to the article buffer in the mail client (from the summary buffer) when the IRC client was loaded? &lt;/dd&gt;&lt;dt&gt;&lt;span class="time"&gt;04:14  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;developer&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/dt&gt;&lt;dd&gt;That sounds freaky. We did fix that one? &lt;/dd&gt;&lt;dt&gt;&lt;span class="time"&gt;04:15  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;user&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/dt&gt;&lt;dd&gt;yeah. actually &lt;b&gt;you&lt;/b&gt; fixed that in a wink &lt;/dd&gt;&lt;dt&gt;&lt;span class="time"&gt;04:16  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;developer&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/dt&gt;&lt;dd&gt;Sounds like a bug in the buffer creation. &lt;/dd&gt;&lt;dt&gt;&lt;span class="time"&gt;04:16  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;user&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/dt&gt;&lt;dd&gt;i&amp;#x2019;m not sure, but it could be somewhere the mode-line was being touched&amp;#x2026; or something like that &lt;/dd&gt;&lt;dt&gt;&lt;span class="time"&gt;04:16  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;developer&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/dt&gt;&lt;dd&gt;Heh. Ok. What about it? &lt;img class="smiley" src="http://www.emacswiki.org/pics/smile.png" alt=":-)" /&gt; &lt;/dd&gt;&lt;dt&gt;&lt;span class="time"&gt;04:16  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;user&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/dt&gt;&lt;dd&gt;well, it&amp;#x2019;s back&lt;/dd&gt;&lt;/dl&gt;&lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/alex?action=browse;tag=1;id=IRC"&gt;IRC&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/alex?action=browse;tag=1;id=Humor"&gt;Humor&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/alex?action=browse;tag=1;id=Emacs"&gt;Emacs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
<pubDate>Tue, 15 Aug 2006 02:21:39 GMT</pubDate>
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